Are you prepared for the inevitable shutdown?
Are you prepared for the inevitable shutdown?
Emulators are legal though
Roms aren't thoughwerealbeit
I already have it downloaded, what's Nintendo going to do?
it's in nearly perfect state. they can't remove it from the internet.
ROMs are perfectly legal, sharing them isnt. None of that has anything to do with dolphin.
NINTENDO, SUE THIS MAN
MAY YOU BE CAUGHT
the harder you try to shut something down the more people are going to want to do it. murder and rape being illegal has never stopped people from murdering and raping
yeah, like how they killed the nes, snes and n64 emulators right? People crying nintendo is killing emulation when they only shut down a emulator that was playing games before they were released, citra was collateral damage.
youtube tried to take ad block out back and kill it
just spawns dozens of copycats
Ublock still outpaces google's ability to show ads despite being unlisted
Windows 11 will flag and delete it when you aren't watching
No reason to use win11
I'm staying on 10 unless they manage to make a non-cucked version of 11
ROMs are perfectly legal
They are not however. Dolphin is useless without the content it relies on like the parasite.
You will upgrade eventually gta6 will make you
I already played all the games I've been a NEET for 30y I only worked 3 months in my life
Can't make me if I don't want it
zero interest in gta6
That's wild. Don't remember asking though.
My laptop upgraded to windows 10 without asking me.
In fact I didn't accept anything on purpose.
It started on it's own and did it at 12 at night.
Spooky stuff
Eh yeah it's pretty much finished
Yes because Kirby Air Riders is coming.
You said parasite and it triggered something
auto updates
updates even
your own fault
You will get gta6 you can't stop yourself.
The fomo will get you
computer force upgrades to windows 11
valve sees this and rolls out SteamOS for common use
never touch windows again
Tendie fatigue is worse than nigger fatigue
Nintendo has stopped giving a shit about emulating older generations, they only care when you are emulating shit they're still selling.
Or when you sell Nintendo roms like a retard like that bowser guy did
did something actually happen or is this thread just pointless
Valve won't do it
I had them off but somehow...
Nah, I won't.
Nope, too old to care about fomo shit.
Dolphin doesn't have a million dusty skeletons in their closet and also doesn't circumvent security keys just to run. It's safe, and even if it isn't, the current versions are nearly perfect, unlike the state the 2 Switch emulators got killed at.
x is worse than x
these statements are always wrong for some reason
They're actively working on it for PC
OP is seething at pirateChads again.
I haven't even played 5 why would I play 6?
Yes, I am an expert in the shutdown field, and I am willing to bet the shutdown will not happen because we are the smartest people on the internet
It is completely legal to have ROMs on your PC. There is nothing illegal about ROMs whatsoever. The thing that is illegal is sharing or downloading copyrighted materials illegitimately.
No reason to stay on windows 10. Unless you enjoy crying how you're victimized because modern software doesn't support old, abandoned operating systems.
those games always sucked
Roms are legal. What do you think these "collections" of megaman or castlevania games or the nintendo switch online games actually are? They are emulated roms. If you look on rom sites nothing stops you from playing a castlevania collection version of Aria of Sorrow on your own mGBA for example.
shutdown
another will just replace it
Wrong.
Most modern emulators are NOT legal, as they require a BIOS or encryption keys file ripped from a console to function. For one, there's NO legal way to obtain these, because performing the steps needed to extract them from the console violate copyright law like the DMCA. The methods to bypass the signature checking (as well as the act of doing so) in order to load the software needed to get the BIOS or keys file are illegal, extraccting the bios and keys are illegal as well because encryption needs to be bypassed to do so and read/export the data. Further, to then take those BIOS/keys file and then utilize them with a software program to then load and run copyright protected software, is also illegal.
Look up what the DMCA considers a 'circumvention device' and you will see that most modern emulation software falls under that definition because of the requirement to provide illegal copies of the BIOS and keys file from a physical console.
like what?
LMAO!
ITT:
The idea isn't to ban it at this point, as that's impossible. The goal is to create extreme life-altering/ending legal and penal risks associated with the act to act as deterrent against engaging in it or aiding/abetting anyone engaging in it in the first place. When it becomes commonplace that pirating/creating the means to pirate bing bing wahoo results in prison time you'll find less and less people willing to have any part in it.
Wah wah nigga.
Go to the police station and tell them you need to be jailed for years of stealing music, movies and TV shows.
I bought into the FOMO on 5 and it was complete garbage.
The DMCA is fucking obsolete and was written by clueless boomers in the first place, coming from the country that allows you to patent anything.
I have never bought a GTA game and the last I played was IV.
Cry about it.
Nintendo doesn't really seem to care as long as it's not on steam desu
Nintendo's games in GC and Wii are the 3% of the catalog. I dont remember Hot Wheel or Giftpia in the online service
what ? what files are you talking about? these emulators dont come with these files. you think nintendo employees dont breach copyright laws?
u wanna talk about copyright laws? id be more than happy than make nintendo finally pay all these composers they "borrowed" the work of, and to credit them + public apology KEK
youtu.be
btw all these music they have stole from older western composers has been recycled in several games by now so a lot of money to ask maybe hehehehe
They would've done it already if they felt like they had a easy case on their hands like they did with Ryujinx. When they got Steam to remove it they likely were trying very hard to figure out how else they could do it but came up with nothing effective. This all happened within a similar timeframe while they were prepping for the Switch 2 launch so people couldn't spam social media with "Just emulate instead of buying!!" nearly as much. Retarded posters like OP now take care of their fearmongering for them for free whenever the discussion does happen.
read only memory is legal
I didn't make the rules, I'm just stating what they entail and why it puts the kibosh on the notion that emulation is legal
There is a reason Yuzu settled out of court besides Nintendo lawyers having them all dead to rights and having zero funds to fight any sort of legal battle, it because fighting them would also have resulted in Nintendo dredging that particular part of the DMCA up in court and potentially creating precedent that would make all emulation post 16bit era legally actionable (not that it wasn't, but sometimes a reminder is all it takes for interested parties to remember they can be legal bullies after all)
Most modern emulators ... require a BIOS or encryption keys file ripped from a console to function
1 sentence in and you're already wrong
Dolphin doesn't require BIOS anyway, so it's an irrelevant point
I still use Ryujinx and it had a major update recently. What are you people talking about
Once it's online, it's gone forever.
IT's just that retards trying to charge for emulators getting sued.
Nintendo is slick and hilarious
Tendie cope
Yuzu and Ryujinx are still in development btw
Most modern emulators are NOT legal, as they require a BIOS or encryption keys file ripped from a console to function.
Good thing Dolphin is not one of them. You open the program, select your totally legal game backup, and play.
If anything, I commend the Dolphin team on their extreme care to not do anything even slightly questionable that Nintendo could use to shut them down.
Dolphin has RetroAchievements
Nintendo STILL doesn't have achievements
why would I waste time supporting and playing the official inferior version when the emulated version offers a better experience?
GTA6 is not worth buying. Maybe GTA7 will be a return to form.
t. skipped 5
PS1 emulation needs a BIOS provided
So does PS2
PS3 requires you to install some version of the official firmware to function, which is basically the same as the above 2 console's BIOS files
Switch emulation needs firmware files and prodkeys.bin which are the console's encryption keys unique per unit
Dolphin doesn require BIOS
Kind of suspect honestly, means they likely built it into the software (mega illegal since its no different from distributing a BIOS dump directly) or they figured out some magic way to basically run a virtual machine without what is basically its operating system/system firmware
you know nothing
Kind of suspect honestly, means they likely built it into the software
no, it just means GC and Wii games don't rely on the console's BIOS to run
PS3 requires you to install some version of the official firmware to function, which is basically the same as the above 2 console's BIOS files
not really, it's just an update file which you can get directly from the playstation website since PS3 allows you to update through USB.
playstation.com
under "Update using a computer"
if murder and rape were legal would they be higher or lower than they are now?
if emulation is so legal how did yuzu get nuked?
This
You are asked to provide a bios prefetably dumped from your own console
Also some will argue that the actual main goal of a emulator is to reach such a state of accuracy than a bios is not even needed. Dolphin doesn't even need a bios to function.
emulators are illegal because you need to rip a console bios and thats le bad!!!
dolphin doesn't need a bios
ummm... that's... le bad, I'm sure of it!!!
Nintendo executives will not have sex with you.
they were selling yuzu through their patreon system.
They settled out of court. Nintendo lawyers (probably) had a theory about how Yuzu was a circumvention tool under the DMCA. The Yuzu devs didn't want to take a chance that they'd get a retarded judge and end up permanent Nintendo slaves for life like what happened Gary Bowser, so they just settled. But that means Nintendo's theory was never proven in court and no legal precedent was set.
If Nintendo wanted to shut it down they would have done it when Valve had to contact Nintendo when it had the chance to end up on their store.
means they likely built it into the software (mega illegal since its no different from distributing a BIOS dump directly)
It's not "mega illegal," it's actually not illegal at all. Even in the US you're allowed to reverse engineer a system to achieve interoperability. You can reverse engineer a BIOS and HLE it or make an open source one and it's completely legal. That's how most GBA emulators work.
or they figured out some magic way to basically run a virtual machine without what is basically its operating system/system firmware
I think you're overestimating how much BIOS/firmware some old consoles had. Most of what you'd call an "operating system" was on the game discs in the GameCube.
Based. No achievement system in 2000 + 25 is fucking pathetic and inexcusable.
What's even left for Dolphin to emulate? Wii and DS connection?
Where do you guys get ROMs these days?
t. FBI
Dolphin uses a private key acquired through illicit means to decrypt Gamecube disc images. Nintendo could go after them any moment and they would cave in just like Yuzu and Ryujinx. They already intervened when it was supposed to release on Steam.
For the millionth time, retard OP, emulation is not illegal
sharing ROMs is illegal
Yuzu got fucked because they were helping crack games that weren't even released yet, and CHARGING for those cracks, on top of distributing cracked versions of that game
All they have to do is make it so you have to "obtain" the key yourself
Mostly these
For one, there's NO legal way to obtain these, because performing the steps needed to extract them from the console violate copyright law like the DMCA.
Wrong. I bought a console with a chip in it. I can read its contents. I just can't share them with other people legally.
The methods to bypass the signature checking (as well as the act of doing so) in order to load the software needed to get the BIOS or keys file are illegal, extraccting the bios and keys are illegal as well because encryption needs to be bypassed to do so and read/export the data.
Maybe if you're a mutt, bypassing encryption on devices that you own is perfectly legal in Europe.
Further, to then take those BIOS/keys file and then utilize them with a software program to then load and run copyright protected software, is also illegal.
Also wrong. I'm allowed to make a backup of the data that I own and then play back said backup on a different device that it was originally shipped with or intended for.
Look up what the DMCA considers a 'circumvention device' and you will see that most modern emulation software falls under that definition because of the requirement to provide illegal copies of the BIOS and keys file from a physical console.
I live in Europe so I don't care about mutt law.
Nintendo can still sue them into Oblivion for damages throughout all of the time that they distributed it, which is more than two decades at this point, I think.
What are they gonna do about it?break into my house and uninstall it from my deck?
Man, KDE Plasma in low resolutions looks disgusting.
two more weeks
And somehow they've stayed up for all these years despite being pretty well known
Go home anon, you're drunk
Dolphin is useless without roms
Oh so there's no reason to take it down then
tfw Gabe was going to kill emulation with his greed
Drone strike your house.
perfect as is
closing it down will have no effect
A bit too late for that and even incomplete emulators like ryujinx and yuzu are fine enough with their development halted
Nothing. Look at me, I
Nigga I have never owned a single GTA game
Most modern emulators are NOT legal, as they require a BIOS or encryption keys file ripped from a console to function.
But they don't provide those, so it's not their problem.
For one, there's NO legal way to obtain these,
Burden of proof is on the accuser unlike your shithole island. Prove I obtained them illegally, oh you can't? It's just appeal to common sense fallacies? Cool. I guess I'll keep emulating then.
Yes I did get them for free
GTA is only good when it's in New York
For one, there's NO legal way to obtain these
Bullshit. Hardware and software allowing that if sold openly and legally.
I've had dolphin on my steam deck for close to 3 years now and I've never used it. Honestly if dolphin shut down I probably wouldn't even notice.
Delete the file, Jamal.
You mean THIIIIIIIIIIS encryption key? :^)
Millions of pirates wake up to the realization that emulators were actually holding them back from enjoying games
Nah, Nintendo is already making reboots or remasters of all their GameCube/Wii games.
No one wants to play the OG version of wind waker.
Probably because Nintendo started selling gc games again
What is the context of this meme I missed it
VLC media player is illegal because it requires a video file that could be copyright protected
lmao retard
You mean just like how nintendo shut down every nes, snes, n64, gb, gbc, and gba emulator before it? Oh wait...
The only emulators Nintendo went after were switch emulators, and even then the only reason they were able to get away with it is because switch emulators used to Nintendo code to spoof responses to Nintendo's authentication servers.
What did Ryujinx get fucked for?
I haven't even played a single gta game faggot
Nintendie youtuber has a meltdown over some game getting leaked early (tears of the kingdom? I think? or pokemon) and people playing it early
Video was deleted later
Devs getting a big sum of money, apparently.
Nice strawman, faggot.
Shutdown??? It's finished. What more do you need retard.
The only emulators Nintendo went after were switch emulators
Hilariously wrong.
I will pirate old Nintendo games. Try making new games that are good instead of Ubislop with a Zelda skin. I had no problem preordering Ace Combat 7 AND buying its story DLC. It really is a you problem, video game industry.
ultrahle
Well, also because the idiots in charge wanted people to pay for the newest updates. Making money off of it and turning it into a product/business of sorts, instead of accepting donations, is always a path to a legal reaming.
based
Why did you work for those 3 months instead of remaining NEET?
I had no problem buying DLC
You're also part of the problem
No one wants to play the OG version of wind waker.
This is bait right? The remaster of Wind Waker was a horrible bloom-filled mess.
Just put it on ipfs and work on it annonymously, EZ DONE
Are they retarded?
Won't happen
why are you asking the baiter if his statement was bait, do you seriously expect an honest answer
I was the prime demographic when 5 came out and never played it, kek.
Backing up and making copies for self use of Movies, software and video games, is literally legal in my country. :)
What FOMO? There is nothing to FOMO about, it's not a limited supply, it's not like the game goes poof after one month of existing.
Man this is on par with bronies. I fucking hope they don't let anyone see this room.
Google, duh
all the nin.toddlers shills in this thread
get a hint
playing nigger games
ishygddt
They didn't. Nintendo paid a couple thugs US$20 to go to his house and politely ask him to hand over ownership of the project.
If you're actually looking for ROMs, the first two sources on google have pretty large collections. Even Reddit has a megathread for them.
Dolphin is up for like 2+ decades. Nintendo know about its existence already, just because ryujinx and yuzu were nuked doesn't mean it will be the same. Cemu still is untouched and citra died because it was made by yuzu tards and citra forks are not being taken down unlike the yuzu ones.
you glowies already fucked archive over
It's a secret
Nintendo is selling retro games now. They will eventually.
I haven't played GTA since IV
Nintendo is selling retro games since the Wii era